Kids and resturants

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Registered: 09-15-2003
Kids and resturants
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Sun, 12-12-2004 - 11:57am

Hey all...


Did you have rules about resturants and babies? Or did you just take them everywhere?


Dh and I went to a VERY pricy resturant as a treat for ourselves a couple of weekends ago. All dressed up and having cocktails. Anyway, right next to us is a party with an 8 month old whining in a high chair. Mind you, our reservations were for 8 pm and they sat after we did.


This is incredibly rude, imo, for many reasons.


First of all, most 8 month olds are done by 8 o'clock. Secondly, there are just some resturants that are not meant for babies... a $75 dollar-a-plate resturant being one of them, imo. I do think that older

Meldi

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:54pm
I'm sorry you don't think I have enough class to refrain from making faces at people, young or old, in restaurants.

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Registered: 09-04-1997
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 5:01pm
I don't think your life if "unnecessarily joyless" because you won't take your children travelling. It's clear that it wouldn't bring you any joy to take your children with you on trips. And as for the letting them stay up late on occasion, it's not you I think is missing out on something. It's the kids who don't get to see the eclipse or whatever it is we were talking about. I don't always spend money on just exactly what we need, either. We're planning on spending two months of the summer in Paris this coming year -- I've been offered a job there, but it would be a somewhat cheaper to go alone and leave DH with the kids at home. But I've decided that life would be pretty joyless without the family, so we're all going and this little venture will likely end up costing us some out of pocket funds rather than being profitable.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 5:04pm
That's not the message I get from my reading of the Bible. I don't see a single verse that points to "Splurge and be done with it" as an acceptable philosophy for Christians, not the idea that money was meant for saving or spending, period. We have always practiced "Share some, save some, spend some."
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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 5:09pm
Kinda like I'm sorry you don't think I have enough class to handle my son appropriately in a restaurant, but there it is.
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Registered: 07-20-2004
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 5:16pm
Why shouldn't she? Whose money is it again, Lois' or yours?

Karen

"A pocketknife is like a melody;
sharp in some places,
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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 5:20pm
Didja miss that that particular "extravagance" was an extravagance spent entirely on Jesus, not on Manolo Blahniks for herself (even if her hubby thought she looked foxy in them)?
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Registered: 09-04-1997
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 5:22pm
This one really isn't even an issue at my place. DH is fourteen years older than I, and my assets are already willed to the kids. Odds are high that I will survive DH, but if something were to happen to me I would hope that DH would find another partner. She would be free to spend her half of DH's assets and her own exactly as she pleased.
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Registered: 07-20-2004
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 5:25pm

Interesting set of verses from last week's Disciple II readings; I underlined them last night and have thought about them over the course of the day.

Deuteronomy 15:7-11:
7 "If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother; 8 but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks. 9 "Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,' and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the LORD against you, and it will be a sin in you. 10 "You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings. 11 "For the poor will never cease to be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, 'You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.'

Note the phrasing of the last verse, "therefore I command you...." Doesn't sound very equivocal to me.

Karen

"A pocketknife is like a melody;
sharp in some places,
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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 5:26pm
She hasn't "limit herself" - she has said she has exactly what she wants. Sometimes more is just. . . more.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 5:30pm
Yeah. It may be a Methodist thing, but the deeper I get into this, the more convicted I am that radical discipleship involves radical changes in lifestyle. I'm doing Jesus in the Gospels this year. Talk about a commitment. Whoosh! Plus, we have the usual dumpster divers hanging around our building this year. Only it's changing from people digging through to get aluminum cans to recycle to people digging through to find food to eat. I can't watch that outside my window and feel good about much.

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